Mughal Rulers built Taj Mahal, Forts Gardens!
Interesting. Not many know about Sir Ganga Ram. Here is little Note about this legendary personality.
Lahore - The City of Gardens
Sir Ganga Ram. Father of Modern Lahore.
Sir Ganga Ram (1851-1927) was a civil engineer and leading philanthropist
of his times, who established the Renala Hydral Power Station in Renala Khurd in
1925.
In 1873, after a brief Service in Punjab P.W.D devoted himself to practical
farming. He obtained on lease from Government 50,000 acres (200 km²) of barren,
unirrigated land in Montgomery district, and within three years converted that vast
desert into smiling fields, irrigated by water lifted by a hydroelectric plant and running through a thousand miles of irrigation channels, all constructed at his own cost. This was the biggest private enterprise of the kind, unknown and unthought-of in the country before. Sir Ganga Ram earned millions most of which he gave to charity.
In the words of Sir Malcolm Hailey, the Governor of Punjab, "he won like a hero and gave like a Saint". He was a great engineer and a great philanthropist.
He designed and built General Post Office, Lahore Museum, Aitchison College, Mayo School of Arts (now the NCA), Ganga Ram Hospital, Lady Mclagan Girls High School, the Chemistry Department of the Government College University, the Albert Victor wing of Mayo Hospital, the Hailey College of Commerce, Ravi Road House for the Disabled, the Ganga Ram Trust Building on The Mall and Lady Maynard Industrial School. He also constructed Model Town, once the best locality of Lahore, the powerhouse at Renala Khurd as well as the railway track between Pathankot and Amritsar
He built Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lady Mclagan School Renala Khurd Power House with his own money.
He was a promising agriculturist, too. He purchased thousands acres of barren land in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad) on lease and by using engineering skills and modern irrigation methods, turned the arid lands into fertile fields.
He retired in 1903. He died in London on July 10, 1927. His body was cremated and his ashes were brought back to India. A portion of the ashes were consigned to Ganga River
and the rest buried in Lahore on the bank of the Ravi.
A statue of Sir Ganga Ram once stood on Mall Road in Lahore. Saadat Hasan
Manto, the famous Urdu writer, in one of his stories on the frenzy of religious riots of 1947 writes that an inflamed mob in Lahore, after attacking a Hindu residential
area, 'turned to attacking the statue of Sir Ganga Ram, the Hindu philanthropist.
They first pelted the statue with stones; then smothered its face with coal tar.
Then a man made a garland of old shoes climbed up to put it round the neck of the statue. The police arrived and opened fire. Among the injured were the fellow with the garland of old shoes.
As he fell, the mob shouted: "Let us rush him to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital".
Regards
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Farrukh Butt
Sir Ganga Ram Power Station Renala Khurd Telecast
Renala Khurd Hydropower Plant (RKHPP) is a small, low-head, run-of-the-river hydroelectric generation station with a 1.1 megawatts (1,500 hp) capacity, located at Renala Khurd, Okara District, North-East of Punjab province of Pakistan, on the flows of Lower Bari Doab Canal.
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